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| Transatlantic 2012
The Book Institute would like to invite you to nominate candidates for the annual Transatlantic Prize. This year the award, presented for the eighth time, will be held in May.
The Transatlantic Prize is awarded by the Book Institute to outstanding ambassador of Polish literature abroad. Its aim is to promote Polish literature on the world market and to award translators of Polish literature and its promoters (literary critics, scholars, publishers, and organizers of cultural events).
The prize is awarded annually and is worth €10,000.
The winner is chosen by a Transatlantic Prize Committee including: Ireneusz Kania, Ksenia Starosielska, Beata Stasińska, Olga Tokarczuk and the Director of the Book Institute.
Up to this date the prize has been awarded to: Henryk Bereska (2005), Anders Bodegård (2006) Albrecht Lempp (2007), Ksenia Starosielska (2008), Biserka Rajčić (2009), Pietro Marchesani (2010) and Vlasta Dvořáčková (2011).
Candidates may be nominated by Polish and foreign cultural organizations, academic institutions, publishers, associations and private persons. Nominees may be of any citizenship other then Polish (including Poles with a foreign passport).
Please do remember to include:
- a short CV of a nominated (additional information documenting her/his activity may be included);
- relevant contact details (of the nominated and the nominating).
In case, of the nomination the same as last year it is sufficient to simply inform us that the nomination is repeated without any further information.
Please submit your nominations to:
The Book Institute
ul. Szczepańska 1,
PL 31-011 Kraków,
fax: +48 12 4293829
a.bobr@bookinstitute.pl
office@bookinstitute.pl
ALL NOMINATIONS HAVE O BE SUBMITTED BY March 31st, 2012.
For further information please contact: Agnieszka Rasińska-Bóbr (tel +48 12 4337040).
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